The night is getting deeper, although it is spring, but the terrain of Yuxiao Pass is too high, and the temperature gradually becomes cold as the night falls.

Just after a big battle, the soldiers of all the troops in the pass were already sleeping in their camps, and there were more than a dozen soldiers guarding the ground house that was originally used as a barracks, and there were more than 300 recruits who had only recently come to Yuxiao Pass.

After they were detained in a centralized manner, they told them that they had the internal response of the Rong people, so they needed to be examined and guarded. Although some of the soldiers were extremely dissatisfied and clamored to go to the commander, when the leaders were beaten down with sticks, the rest stopped shouting and could only pin their hopes on future scrutiny, after all, they knew that they were innocent.

Tonight's Yuxiao Pass is particularly cold, although there is no cold wind in the basement house, but it makes people feel a little cold, cold to the bone, because there is no bedding, so even in the middle of the night, few people can sleep, they have to rely on each other at the moment, sitting in a daze.

Suddenly, everyone heard a rush of footsteps at the gate of the basement and the sound of the chains of the basement door opening, and everyone stood up and looked in the direction of the gate. When the gate opened, dozens of torches emitted a faint but piercing light, and in the light, dozens of people walked in with weapons.

As the deputy general of Yuxiao Pass, Lu Chang's daily patrol of the camp is indispensable, and how can he have the heart to rest when the Rong people are outside the pass.

Looking at the room where the lights had been turned off at the moment, and then thinking about the owner of that room, he felt disgusted when he saw the appearance of Rong Ren Array urinating on his crotch during the day, and he couldn't help but spit a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground.

As a veteran in his forties, Lu Chang used his more than 20 years of time and countless life and death battles to win the title of Shangzao.

Use the savings he has accumulated for half of his life to ask for a daughter-in-law for his son who has reached the age of 20, and then watch his daughter marry a good family, this life is enough.

But half a year ago, a pawn from his hometown was in Yuxiao Pass, and he recognized that one of the descendants was Lu Wei, the son of his neighbor Lu San, so he arranged him to be a guard by his side. After a few days, he felt that this posterity was hiding from him everywhere, and under his "coercion and intimidation", the posterity told him a piece of news that the sky was falling apart:

Half a month ago, Lu Wei returned home from the barracks, preparing to carry clothes and other things to be used in Yuxiao Pass, and when he was about to get home, he found that there seemed to be many people in Lu Chang's house, and he was a little curious and wanted to go over to take a look.

But if you don't look at it, it startles Lu Wei when you look at it. He saw several people beating Lu Chang's son with wooden sticks from afar, Lu Wei hurriedly hid in the grass, and after a long time of careful looking, he found that it was Wang Hu, the hereditary aristocratic official of Longde City, and his clan Bo Wang He and others who wanted to arrest Lu Chang's fifteen-year-old daughter, and then saw that Lu Chang's old wife also died tragically under the knife of the Wang family's minions, and after the Wang family left, he crawled in the grass for a long time before coming out, and found that Lu Chang's wife and children had died.

Hearing this letter, Lu Chang fainted on the spot, originally thinking that Lu Chang would go back to take revenge, but found that Lu Chang did not behave abnormally after waking up, but told him not to tell others about this again.

Three days later, Longdecheng sent weapons and grain and grass when he brought an official letter, the letter said that the government received a report, found that Lu Chang's family was robbed by bandits, Lu Chang's wife was lost to the bandits, and his daughter was missing.

After receiving the letter, Lu Chang cried in front of everyone and expressed his gratitude to the official family for their bereavement.

Lu Chang didn't want to take revenge, but how could an old man be as impulsive as a hairy boy, he had planned all kinds of plans in his heart, but he felt that it was not appropriate to think about it repeatedly, just when he was at a loss, a person who claimed to be Xia Guodan's envoy found him and told him the method of revenge, although this method made him hesitate, but in the end, thinking about his tragic death of his wife, thinking about his missing daughter and his dissatisfaction with this dark world made him agree.

In half a year, he secretly contacted his old subordinates Ji Yuntian, Jiang Hong, Han Linhui and some trusted old brothers, trying to persuade everyone to join him. But unexpectedly, after he told everyone about his plan, everyone agreed, and it turned out that they had accepted the rebellion of the Rong people long before him.

For them, there are only two motivations for defecting to Rong, one is the desire for power and dissatisfaction with the hereditary monopoly of the Qin nobles, and the other is because they know that Rong Ren Shan Yu is also a Qin person, which is also the reason why Lu Chang will agree to the messenger's plan, and the psychological difference between defecting to Rong and taking refuge in Qin Danyu is very different.

For Lu Chang, the only people who could prevent him from taking Yuxiao Pass and then leading his troops to Longde for revenge were Han Yun and An Xuzhi, the guard of Muqi Pass, but these two were transferred from Mujiao Pass together, and he didn't dare to rebel easily, for fear of falling short.

But he also knew that Han Yun and An Xuzhi were both iron-clad men, and he didn't want to harm the lives of the two of them until he had to. Just when Lu Chang was a little worried, a small-scale invasion of the Rong people made Lu Chang see hope again.

In the battle of Muqi Pass, a messenger from Xijing came to Yuxiao Pass, he heard that the Rong people attacked Muqi Pass, so he hindered Han Qianren from sending troops to rescue, Han Qianren did not listen at first, and the person showed a thing for Han Qianren to see and then had nothing to say.

The nobleman let his soldiers go to the Wooden Hedgehog Pass, and soon after, a spy reported that the Rong people had attacked the Wooden Hedgehog Pass, and Han Qianren was busy sending troops to help, and the messenger also followed, and later learned that the Wooden Hedgehog Pass was lost and recovered, but the messenger never returned.

Instinctively told himself that this was an opportunity, and then he asked people to bring altar wine from Longde, so he asked Han Qianren to drink together, and he took advantage of Han Qianren's drunkenness to say something to him, "The nobles are bullied too much" and something like that, and sure enough, Han Qianren scolded for a long time. But when he said that it was better to kill and kill those bird nobles, Han Yun was noncommittal, so that Lu Chang didn't know whether this Han Yun was drunk or not.

Unsure, he informed the contact person on the Rong side, who wrote a few days later: "This matter can be done, this person can be used, but it needs to be done slowly." ”

Today, the great achievement is about to be completed, Han Yun was designed by a few of his own people to go to Han Linhui's place, and eight or nine times out of ten he has also been captured by the Rong people, but the wooden hedgehog guard An Xuzhi came with the news that he was killed in battle, which made him sigh and sigh.

But unexpectedly, there was a new trouble in Yuxiao Pass, to be exact, two people, a Ma Yuan, and a Lihua.

Lu Chang has completely different attitudes towards these two people, this Ma Yuan is not worth mentioning at all, but Zhu Lihua is a talent. Although this person is not very old, he is very scheming, if he hadn't let Ji Yuntian act in a play under his own instruction and lead the focus of Zhu Lihua's attention to the recruits, maybe this plan would have changed because of the appearance of this person.

But variables are not a foregone conclusion, and under their long-planned preparations, how can a mere hundred generals set off big waves.

Although he thinks so, Lu Chang has been in the army for a long time after all, and in order to be safe, he still ordered someone to catch Ma Yuan, because he was afraid that once the door was closed and opened, let Lu Lihua master Ma Yuan and Yuxiao Pass Guard's Seal Letter, and the soldiers in the pass would add unnecessary trouble if they had command.

There is still a quarter of an hour left before the agreed time, and after a quarter of an hour, this Yuxiao Pass will completely change color, and he has already thought of leading his troops to kill Longde and kill the Wang family to take revenge.

Thinking of this, Lu Chang couldn't help but clench the hilt of the sword in his hand.

"Footsteps" A sound of footsteps came from the darkness in the distance to Lu Chang's ears, Lu Chang looked up into the darkness ahead, but saw a thin and tall figure walking out of the darkness.

Lu Chang was almost at the gate at this time, he wanted to see the implementation of the plan to open the gate with his own eyes, to see the Rong people pouring into the pass, and at the same time to save the lives of some of the brothers guarding the pass, he had even prepared a rhetoric to let the Qin soldiers who were holding the city pass lay down their weapons under the attack of the Rong people.

After all, there are not many people who conspire with him in Yuxiao Pass, and there are not many people who know his plan, and most of the soldiers in this pass only know how to defend the pass against the enemy, and do not know that their main general has already surrendered to the Rong people.

The thin figure slowly walked to the front of Lu Chang, and it was Li Hua who was wearing a black suit.

Lu Chang was a little surprised, why was he able to meet Lihua here in the middle of the night, and then he immediately understood, it seemed that Lihua already knew something, but he still looked as usual, and asked Lihua: "It's so late at night, why don't the hundred generals come here in their own camp?" ”

Looking at Lu Chang's dew covered with armor, Lu Lihua gave a salute and said, "Lord Lu is not also patrolling the customs late at night, and he has not rested. Thinking that the Lord General had not yet gone to bed, how could he dare to sleep soundly, so he wanted to accompany Lord Lu to patrol the customs together. ”

Of course, Lu Chang would not believe that he was just for patrolling the customs because of a few words from Lu Lihua, but looking at Lu Lihua's demeanor, he didn't see anything unusual, so he waved his hand to let the two soldiers behind him retreat, and he took a few steps closer to Lu Lihua, and said softly: "Doctor Lu Li has something important to discuss with the old man." ”

Looking at Lu Chang, who was over forty years old but had a gray beard, Lu Lihua sighed and said to Lu Chang: "Lord Lu knows that since Yao Jun was divided, the Lu Li family has participated in all the battles of the Rong people to invade the pass, and countless people have died in battle, and I also saw my father die in the battle under Xiao Guan, I was only five years old that year, so I secretly vowed to avenge my father. ”

Lu Chang nodded and said: "The nobles of the Qin State are already responsible for defending the territory, and Yao Jun almost sealed all the good generals under his command in the Qin State for this purpose. After that, Lu Chang actually smiled slightly, which made Lu Lihua feel a little weird, because he had never seen Lu Chang smile, but this smile was full of mockery.

"When it comes to today's strife, although I am only a martial artist, I also know that all countries want to usurp the Son of Heaven. Now that the world's etiquette and music are collapsing, the nobles only know that in the fish and meat township, they are fighting for power and profit, where there is a trace of the desire to defend the land and protect the people. ”

After that, Lu Chang looked at Lu Lihua intently, but saw that he was not annoyed, and lowered his head as if thinking about what Lu Chang said. After a while, Lu Lihua raised his head and said, "Lord Lu, do you know why no matter the nobles and commoners, as long as their parents die, their sons have to keep filial piety for three years?" ”

Lu Chang was stunned when he heard this, and he was a little confused in his heart, what he said just now had already scolded Li Lihua, and he thought that the two of them would tear their faces. But I didn't expect Lihua to suddenly ask such a strange question.

Of course, he is not afraid to kill a noble child before the pass is broken, although he also admires this Lihua, but he also knows that there will be endless troubles if he keeps this person.

In fact, Lu Chang wanted to wait until the closure was broken to find and get rid of Lihua, but he was surprised to find that Lihua was actually sent to the door, such nobles who did not practice martial arts were simply powerless in their eyes, so he was relieved to let the guards retreat and paralyze Lihua to let him relax his vigilance.

At this moment, Lu Chang was not in a hurry to kill the ants in his opponent's heart, and he was a little confused about why Lihua suddenly changed the topic. After thinking about it slightly, he didn't know the intention of Zhu Lihua, so he had to say: "Three years of filial piety, it has been like this since ancient times, to show respect for my parents, why did General Zhu Libai ask me about this?" ”

Since ancient times, people have known that they have to keep filial piety for three years, this is the rule, some people abide by the rules and some people do not abide by it, it all depends on the heart.

But the real reason for keeping filial piety for three years is that after a baby is born, he cannot leave the arms of his parents until he is three years old, so he must keep filial piety for three years after the death of his parents to remember the kindness of his parents, which is a heartfelt act and does not need to be forced.

This is like our Qin soldiers, although everyone knows that they want to sacrifice their lives to serve the country, but the real reason for sacrificing their lives is not in Jun'en or righteousness, but in this land that has raised us, the ancestors who have raised us, and the children and grandchildren we want to raise. If all this is taken away by the Rong people, then we will have no mother state, no land for giving birth to children and grandchildren, no land for cultivation and food, no ancestral halls for sacrifice, and no roots. Therefore, we have to defend ourselves against foreign invaders and not give them an inch of land.

This is not a matter of the Shu clan, not a matter of the nobility, but a matter of the whole world. Zhu Lihua stared at Lu Chang Zhenzhen and said.